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The Extradition Act, 1962

41 sections · As amended up to 2026-08

Sections

  1. 0Section 0
  2. I — PRELIMINARY
  3. 1Short title, extent and commencement
  4. III — RETURN OF FUGITIVE CRIMINALS TO[4] [FOREIGN STATES] WITH EXTRADITION ARRANGEMENTS
  5. 2The word "respectively" omitted by s. 7, ibid . (w.e.f. 18-12-1993)
  6. I — PRELIMINARY
  7. 3Application of Act
  8. II — EXTRADITION OF FUGITIVE CRIMINALS TO FOREIGN STATE[3] * * * TO WHICH CHAPTER III DOES
  9. 4Requisition for surrender.―
  10. 5Order for magisterial Inquiry.―
  11. 6Issue of warrant for arrest.―
  12. 7Procedure before magistrate
  13. 8Surrender of fugitive criminal
  14. 9Power of magistrate to issue warrant of arrest in certain cases.―
  15. V — MISCELLANEOUS
  16. 10Causing of loss or damage to property used for public utilities or otherwise with intention to endanger life (section 425 read with section 440)
  17. II — EXTRADITION OF FUGITIVE CRIMINALS TO FOREIGN STATE[3] * * * TO WHICH CHAPTER III DOES
  18. 11Chapter not to apply to Commonwealth countries to which Chapter III applies.―
  19. III — RETURN OF FUGITIVE CRIMINALS TO[4] [FOREIGN STATES] WITH EXTRADITION ARRANGEMENTS
  20. 12Application of Chapter
  21. 13Liability of fugitive criminals from foreign States to be apprehended and returned
  22. 14Endorsed and provisional warrants
  23. 15Endorsed warrant for apprehension of fugitive criminal
  24. 16Provisional warrant for apprehension of fugitive criminal
  25. 17Dealing with fugitive criminal when apprehended
  26. 18Return of fugitive criminal by warrant
  27. IV — SURRENDER OR RETURN OF ACCUSED OR CONVICTED PERSONS FROM FOREIGN STATES[2] * * *
  28. 19Mode of requisition or form of warrant for the surrender or return to India of accused or convicted
  29. 20Conveyance of accused or convicted person surrendered or returned
  30. 21Accused or convicted person surrendered or returned by foreign State not to be tried for certain off
  31. V — MISCELLANEOUS
  32. 22Liability of fugitive criminals to be arrested and surrendered or returned
  33. 23Jurisdiction as to offences committed at sea or in air
  34. 24Discharge of person apprehended if not surrendered or returned within two months
  35. 25Release of persons arrested on bail
  36. 26Abetment of extradition offences
  37. 27Lawfulness of, and re-taking on escape from, custody under warrants
  38. 28Property found on fugitive criminal
  39. 29Power of Central Government to discharge any fugitive criminal
  40. 30Simultaneous requisitions
  41. 31Restrictions on surrender
  42. 32Sections 29 and 31 to apply without any modification thereof
  43. 33Act not to affect the Foreigners Act, 1946
  44. 34Extra territorial jurisdiction
  45. 34AProsecution on refusal to extradition
  46. 34BProvisional arrest
  47. 34CProvision of life imprisonment for death penalty
  48. 35Notified orders and notifications to be laid before Parliament
  49. 36Power to make rules
  50. 37Repeals and savings